Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

A doorway to a beautifully built new world

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire

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How do you care for your daughter after she returns from the Land of the Dead? If you’re Nancy’s parents, you take her to Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children. Thus begins Every Heart a Doorway. Nancy is delivered to her new home to get better when all she wants is to return to the world she stumbled upon years ago. As does everyone else under Eleanor’s care. She takes care of and helps those children who have crossed over to other worlds and want nothing […]

All of Us as in 4 of 7 Villains

All of Us Villains by Amanda Food, Christine Lynn Herman

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I saw a blurb somewhere describing All of Us Villains as ‘the Hunger Games with magic’; that’s accurate, but I think this one is more. The premise is that recently a book has leaked a lot of information about a local secret to the press: once a generation, the seven leading families in Ilvernath select a champion to compete in a tournament to decide who gets to control the scant magical resources for the upcoming generation. Basically the only way to win is to kill […]

“I never even believed in happiness. I didn’t think it existed. Now look at me. I’m ready to believe in just about anything.”

Practical Magic (Practical Magic, #1) by Alice Hoffman

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Somehow I made it thirty-three years without seeing the movie Practical Magic or reading the book it’s based on. I corrected the movie-watching on Netflix several years back, but I never thought about reading the book until Book of the Month put out this edition as an add-on the month they selected the prequel to be featured. I actually read the prequel first, and I really liked it! And it was clearly written after the popularity of the movie had sort of overshadowed the book, […]

I know it says three stars but I actually did like it!!!

The Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson

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I’m not saying I didn’t like this book–I did, and I already have the next two queued up (only just learnt that there’ll be a fourth! My brother did NOT tell me this, I’m not saying I wouldn’t have started had I known but also would I have started if I’d known? Unclear. But apparently the fourth is coming soon and so I “won’t have long to wait, I don’t understand why you’re being so finicky about this, imagine the rest of us who have […]

The Superheroine duo is now the foreshadowed Heroine Trio!

Heroine's Journey by Sarah Kuhn

Haunted Heroine by Sarah Kuhn

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Heroine’s Journey and Haunted Heroine are the third and fourth books in Sarah Kuhn’s fun ‘Heroine’ series.  Demons breached our dimension and some humans gained powers as a result.  Set in present day San Francisco and surrounding areas, Aveda Jupiter and her best friend Evie Tanaka have become the superheroine darlings of the city.  Aveda’s telekinesis combined with fighting prowess and Evie’s ability to create and throw fire have made them a fantastic duo.  The road to get there has been rough as they each had […]

“Mum spent a lot of time in my formative years gently reminding me that people don’t think about us nearly as much as we think they do, because they’re all busy worrying what people are thinking about them.” 

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik

The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik

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Imagine a high school that has zero teachers or staff, just students trying to learn and advance. When you show up the first day of freshman year you don’t leave until graduation day senior year. All you have with you is what you had in your pockets or even in your mouth — No suitcases or trunks. It’s a school of magic, but not like Hogwarts or Watford. And that school is actively trying to kill you. This is the world that our “heroine,” El […]



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